The Erroneous Assumptions of Fiducia Supplicans

Fiducia supplicans is based on two grave erroneous assumptions, derived from the present homofied Western culture, which account for its grave erroneous conclusion that same-sex "couples" may be blessed:

1) That there are same-sex "couples" in our Christian communities

2) That same-sex "couples" are to be considered in the same way as heterosexual couples in irregular situations.

1) The first erroneous assumption might take the form of a pastoral question: What are we to do with the same-sex "couples" which are present in our churches? This erroneous assumption is based on a grave pastoral error, the tacit acceptance of public perversion in our Christian community. No pastor worthy of the name can permit that type of scandal in his community: same-sex "couples," publicly and obstinately identifying as such. He needs to directly address it and correct it. In other words, good pastors do not have that circumstance in their communities. That, in fact, officially, is the case, in the African continent as a whole. Deo gratias! It should be so in the whole world.

2) The second erroneous assumption is that same-sex "couples" and heterosexual couples in irregular situations are to be publicly/pastorally treated the same. Here is another grave pastoral error, closely related to the first. A same-sex "couple," in fact, is never a couple in any true sense and can never be truly legitimatized in any way, though a heterosexual couple may indeed become a regularized marital union or may otherwise be a true couple in some limited senses.

A man is never rightly romantically involved with another man. Any public display to the contrary is always lewd, a scandal for all who witness it. A homosexual "couple" is always an affront to the basic decency of all observers, beginning with the "couple" themselves. It can therefore never be accepted or tolerated in the Christian community. Heterosexual couples, because of the ambiguity and redeemability of their case, are quite different. Oftentimes heterosexual couples have children which have come from their natural procreative sexual intimacy, and for which they have serious natural duties as the father and mother of their common children in their home. Furthermore, their irregular situation, in principle, might be regularized, if they should have no impediment to holy marriage, or if the present impediments should in the future cease to exist. Neither of these two factors can ever be the case with same-sex "couples." And, because of the open affront of public same-sex romance to basic decency, no pastor can rightly permit it in any way in his community. He has no authority to permit what God condemns, namely every form of homosexual activity, including all public displays of homosexual affection: the "couple."

No, contrary to the first erroneous assumption, Christians forbid any manner of same-sex romance ("couples") in the Church, in any way! Because, contrary to the second erroneous assumption, homosexual romance is categorically different from heterosexual romance, which is not forbidden in the Church. It, heterosexual romance, in fact, is applauded in our Christian communities, and celebrated and upheld in the form of holy marriage, to which it is exclusively fitted. Every manner of same-sex romance Christ categorically condemns, as do we. We do not permit it.

So, the real answer to the question, "Can we bless the same-sex "couples" of our community?" is, We do not have such couples in our community. That is forbidden.

The Africans are right!

Africa Parts Ways: Collective Rejection of Fiducia Supplicans by all Catholic Churches in Africa (Full Document)

We, in America and in Western Europe, find ourselves in gaydom, and are therefore more susceptible than the Africans to these erroneous assumptions. God Himself, in Sacred Scripture tells us that we are to have different standards for the members of our communities than we have for the world.

I Cor. 5:9-13

I wrote to you in an epistle (2 Thess. 3:14), not to keep company with fornicators. I mean not with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or the extortioners, or the servers of idols; otherwise you must needs go out of this world.

But now I have written to you, not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother, be a fornicator, or covetous, or a server of idols, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner: with such a one, not so much as to eat. For what have I to do to judge them that are without? Do not you judge them that are within? For them that are without, God will judge. Put away the evil one from among yourselves.